Rasoul Yunan (, born 1969 in a village near
Urmia Lake,
West Azerbaijan) is an Iranian poet of
Iranian Azerbaijani descent.
He is primarily a Persian poet but is also a translator and writer of
Persian literature and
Azerbaijani literature
Azerbaijani literature ( az, Azərbaycan ədəbiyyatı) is written in Azerbaijani, a Turkic language, which is the official state language of the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the North Azerbaijani variety is spoken. It is also natively spoken ...
. His genres include
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
, short story,
dastan and modern poetry.
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1969 births
People from Urmia
Living people
20th-century Iranian poets
Azerbaijani-language poets
Iranian male novelists
Iranian novelists
Iranian dramatists and playwrights
Iranian male short story writers
Iranian translators
Persian-language poets
20th-century Persian-language writers